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The language I have learnt these forty years, my native English, now I must forgo; and now my tongue's use is to me no more than an unstringed viol or a harp, or like a cunning instrument cased up or, being open, put into his hands that knows no touch to tune the harmony (Cunning Quotes)
So shall you hear of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, and, in this upshot, purposes mistook fall'n on th' inventors' heads (Cunning Quotes)
Nobody was ever so cunning as to conceal their being so; and everybody is shy and distrustful of crafty men (Cunning Quotes)
Through knowledge we behold the world's creation, how in his cradle first he fostered was; and judge of nature's cunning operation, how things she formed of a formless mass (Cunning Quotes)
It has been a sort of maxim that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning (Cunning Quotes)
In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit (Cunning Quotes)
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends (Cunning Quotes)
If beauty isn’t genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning (Cunning Quotes)
The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user (Cunning Quotes)
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock (Cunning Quotes)
A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit (Cunning Quotes)
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart? (Cunning Quotes)
To see a man as beautiful – means to make him really beautiful. There is no cunning, no deceit; this happens every time, everyone knows that (Cunning Quotes)
To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one’s self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game (Cunning Quotes)
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around (Cunning Quotes)
Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a man to know that he shall die, that is common to all men; as much as there is no man that may ever live or he hath hope or trust thereof; but thou shalt find full few that hath this cunning to learn to die. I shall give thee the mystery of this doctrine; the which shall profit thee greatly to the beginning of ghostly health, and to a stable fundamental of all virtues (Cunning Quotes)
Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda (Cunning Quotes)
Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it’s smashed you have to move into a different sort of life (Cunning Quotes)
No, it’s not that they’re bad. It’s that they’re obliged to pretend they’re good. They’ve been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don’t want to be like that (Cunning Quotes)
When you break the heart of the philosopher, you must apply great force and cunning strategy, but when the deed is completed, the heart lies in great stony ruin at your feet. If you succeed in breaking it, the job is done once and for all. It will not be repaired (Cunning Quotes)
What I could really use is an older man. A mentor. One who could tell me how things fit together. He would have asked me to do chores that I felt were meaningless. I would have been impatient and protested, but done them nonetheless. And eventually, after several months of hard labour, I would have realised that there was a deeper meaning behind it all, and that the master had a cunning plan all the time (Cunning Quotes)
Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and courtier. But the merchant, like all other industrious men, seeks his benefit only in his talent, in virtue of freely arrived at agreements, and appealing to faith and the laws (Cunning Quotes)
Increasingly I felt as if I were entering a struggle that might even be more than life and death. It might be a struggle for my soul, my essence, or whatever part of me might have reference to the eternal. There are worse things than death, I suspected... so far the word demon had never been spoken among the scientists and doctors who were working with me... Alone at night I worried about the legendary cunning of demons... At the very least I was going stark, raving mad (Cunning Quotes)
When all the people in the world love one another, then the strong will not overpower the weak, the many will not oppress the few, the wealthy will not mock the poor, the honored will not disdain the humble, and the cunning will not deceive the simple (Cunning Quotes)
When everybody in the world loves one another, then the weak will not be overpowered by the strong, the few will not be oppressed by the many, the poor will not be mocked by the wealthy, the humble will not be disdained by the honoured, and the simple will not be deceived by the cunning (Cunning Quotes)
The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say (Cunning Quotes)
In the meane time know this, that the learning of warranties is one of the most curious and cunning learnings of the law, and of great use and consequence (Cunning Quotes)
As a farmer, man himself became closely attached to the landscape, firmly rooted to the soil that supported him. At times the soil seemed bountiful and kindly and again stubborn and unfriendly, but it was always a challenge to man’s cunning (Cunning Quotes)
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle (Cunning Quotes)
On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from another world, without experience or cunning, to succeed gradually in gaining control over what is to be taped, what goes out over the air, what is said without censorship, is an epic feat (Cunning Quotes)